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boehner will be tip o'neill, obama needs to be reagan. i would vote for revenues including tax rate hikes, even though i don't like them, to stave country from becoming greece. >> today, despite the president being in hawaii, the fiscal cliff is still on the agenda. kristen welker is with the president in honolulu. good day to you, kristen. what are you hearing there? >> reporter: alex, good morning to you. white house officials say this is very much a working vacation, no word if president obama has actually spoke on the congressional leaders at this point. i can tell you that conversations are going on at the staff level. but the reality is that the hard work, the final touches probably won't be put on these bills or this bill, rather, that they're hoping to get until lawmakers, the president, return to washington. and of course that won't happen until after the christmas holiday. this has a lot of people worried, alex, because as you say there's not a lot of time left to get a deal done. president obama, house speaker john boehner, wer
boehner will be tip o'neill, obama needs to be reagan. i would vote for revenues including tax rate hikes, even though i don't like them, to stave country from becoming greece. >> today, despite the president being in hawaii, the fiscal cliff is still on the agenda. kristen welker is with the president in honolulu. good day to you, kristen. what are you hearing there? >> reporter: alex, good morning to you. white house officials say this is very much a working vacation, no word if...
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so boehner's going to ask for cuts to go along with debt ceiling increases as well. so this is a multi-headed beast if you will, an hydra that's waiting to be solved. it they don't have a lot of time. i think we're down to 12 or 13 legislative days before the end of the year. so there you go. let's -- a grand bargain in that short of time probably isn't going to take place. i think we can expect them to punt on pretty much all these things. >> can i ask you guys quickly about the testimony of former cia director general david petraeus as he appeared this week, yesterday. with regard to the testimony he talked about the benghazi attack. the answers he gave did not seem so sit well with the gop. but each side spinning exactly what he said to suit their interpretations. should the gop, though, lay to rest all of their complaints at this point? reid, you first. >> i don't think they're going to lay anything to rest. >> but should they based on what he said? this is the guy who was in charge. >> and i think that there are probably more things that peter king and the repub
so boehner's going to ask for cuts to go along with debt ceiling increases as well. so this is a multi-headed beast if you will, an hydra that's waiting to be solved. it they don't have a lot of time. i think we're down to 12 or 13 legislative days before the end of the year. so there you go. let's -- a grand bargain in that short of time probably isn't going to take place. i think we can expect them to punt on pretty much all these things. >> can i ask you guys quickly about the...
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i think you heard john boehner say that. we've had votes in the senate where we've gotten rid of tax credits. i think that's a given. >> we need the republicans to do in 2012 what we did in 2010. we hear the mandate continue to cut spending, but they have to hear the than date real revenues not like dynamic scoring. >> and here's what happens if no agreement is reached before january 1st.bush tax rates expire. emergency unemployment benefits will end. the 2011 payroll tax holiday expires. and $984 billion in cuts will be triggered. joining me now, andy sullivan and sher a tupletts. what do you expect to come out of the meeting friday and will any real progress made? >> oh, no, but i think the optics will be important. there will beside by side getting their picture taken and i think this will reassure voters and most importantly investors that they are serious about the problem and they want t to get something done before the end of the year. they've pretty much gotten a free ride from the markets. everybody knew this was co
i think you heard john boehner say that. we've had votes in the senate where we've gotten rid of tax credits. i think that's a given. >> we need the republicans to do in 2012 what we did in 2010. we hear the mandate continue to cut spending, but they have to hear the than date real revenues not like dynamic scoring. >> and here's what happens if no agreement is reached before january 1st.bush tax rates expire. emergency unemployment benefits will end. the 2011 payroll tax holiday...
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boehner has said repealing it entirely is a moot issue. but getting some concessions is probably the way to do it. in part because there are democrats who agree that changes should be made and even the president has said that it's not a perfect law. do the math. deduct it a little bit or make changes to republican care. you've got the workings of a grand compromise and everyone can walk away a winner by saying, look, we changed obama care, we're going to pay down the debt. who loses in that situation? certainly on the fringes people would say it's a bad deal but pretty much both parties could walk away and say we compromised and we fixed it. >> you want to write that up and send it up to the hill there? the other hot topic on "meet the press," the gaubenghazi attack t killed the ambassador chris stevens. >> susan rice is obligated to do more than look at a three-sentence unclassified or five-classified unclassified talking points. she had access to all of the sensitive top secret classified information and she knew that the story she was g
boehner has said repealing it entirely is a moot issue. but getting some concessions is probably the way to do it. in part because there are democrats who agree that changes should be made and even the president has said that it's not a perfect law. do the math. deduct it a little bit or make changes to republican care. you've got the workings of a grand compromise and everyone can walk away a winner by saying, look, we changed obama care, we're going to pay down the debt. who loses in that...
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john boehner says it may not only be tough for a lame duck congress to piece together a deal, it would also be a wrong deal for the country. in the interview, john boehner says about that, it is a difficult thing to do, and frankly i'm not sure it is the right thing to do, have a lot of retiring members voting on big bi bills. johnathan, good day to you. >> good afternoon. >> is this making you angry, leaders thinking we should fall over this fiscal cliff? is that what they want? >> well, the part of this that is new is the idea that he is opposed to any kind of deal in principle, because it occurs after the election, but before the new lawmakers have taken office. we always knew that the two sides were far apart, but you know, now it looks even worse. on the other side you have senator patty murray, saying that she is ready to go over the fiscal cliff in order to secure tax increases on the wealthy, so it does look pretty dire at this stage. >> so januaohnathan, look, john boehner is a seasoned politician, do you think this is the new hand he is using to strengthen their policy agains
john boehner says it may not only be tough for a lame duck congress to piece together a deal, it would also be a wrong deal for the country. in the interview, john boehner says about that, it is a difficult thing to do, and frankly i'm not sure it is the right thing to do, have a lot of retiring members voting on big bi bills. johnathan, good day to you. >> good afternoon. >> is this making you angry, leaders thinking we should fall over this fiscal cliff? is that what they want?...
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. >> also new today, house speaker john boehner saying hey, not so fast. >> even though the president tried to admit for over a year that it wasn't a tax, nobody believed it, and now we know it. but it's getting in the way of employers hiring new workers. because of these increased costs of government-run healthxd insurance and the fact that if they don't, they have to provide a tax. >> president obama, asking supporters to shell out more cash. a new daily beast reportñr that describes a late-night conference call from "air force one" asking donors to send more money and send it now. >>> and governor scott said it won't expand the medicaid prram. he recently said he would follow the law if upheld by the supreme court. joining me now, john harwood, and editor of citizen janmç politics, patricia murphy and contribute for for "newsweek" and the daily beast. john, we'll start with you let's get to the daily beast report, saying basically it obtained a tape of the president asking donors for more money and in that report, saying "we just can't be outspent 10 to 1. that's what happened in
. >> also new today, house speaker john boehner saying hey, not so fast. >> even though the president tried to admit for over a year that it wasn't a tax, nobody believed it, and now we know it. but it's getting in the way of employers hiring new workers. because of these increased costs of government-run healthxd insurance and the fact that if they don't, they have to provide a tax. >> president obama, asking supporters to shell out more cash. a new daily beast reportñr that...
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boehner's bill which ryan voted for and all the republicans in the house, virtually all the republicans in the house, voted for is exactly what akin said. >> yeah. but you know there's a big difference in -- >> there's no exception for rape, no exception for incest. this is a party that does not value women. that's just a fact. >> and you're a party that doesn't value life. >> they voted that way again and again and again and it's in the republican party platform. so i think this just makes this a party a very hard sell for women. >> so wesley, would they have preferred the rnc in general and republicans, not to have the whole akin controversy, not necessarily because you can say one man made a very ignorant statement, the guy obviously didn't pass basic biological science class. but what it does is it opens up an issue where this is a policy issue for the republicans. i mean, do they wish they hadn't gone there, this whole controversy with akin hadn't opened that up? >> of course. i mean, there's no denying that point. but to try to say one man's comments makes the entire party ant itt
boehner's bill which ryan voted for and all the republicans in the house, virtually all the republicans in the house, voted for is exactly what akin said. >> yeah. but you know there's a big difference in -- >> there's no exception for rape, no exception for incest. this is a party that does not value women. that's just a fact. >> and you're a party that doesn't value life. >> they voted that way again and again and again and it's in the republican party platform. so i...
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else on the republican side, who has tried to run away are the issue, like mitt romney and like john boehner. from a personal perspective, i think the president has every right and did the right thing by calling her. she came into the spotlight as a private citizen, just wanting to speak up for herself and not share her own stair, but share the story of women who she had spoken with and was close to. >> do you think this rose to the level of p making a presidential personal call? >> it's his prerogative to make phone calls like this. i would suspect there was a personal component to it and when he bounced it off the political advisers, go for it. she has been somebody who has been very local in defending his health care legislation. obviously she's al ally. he saw her under attack. from a political standpoint, in an election where democrats really need a gender gap that they did not have two years ago, they need to get back to where they were in 2008, it was a smart move. he knew this would get on the top of every newspaper, which it did, and it would rise to a new level of attention that be
else on the republican side, who has tried to run away are the issue, like mitt romney and like john boehner. from a personal perspective, i think the president has every right and did the right thing by calling her. she came into the spotlight as a private citizen, just wanting to speak up for herself and not share her own stair, but share the story of women who she had spoken with and was close to. >> do you think this rose to the level of p making a presidential personal call? >>...